The Grammy Awards: The Winners!

Ever since the flute-wielding Jethro Tull won an award for Best Hard Rock Act in 1988, The Grammys have seemed to decrease in relevance with each passing year. But this year, the music awards really pulled out all the stops: a Police reunion, Justin Timberlake performing with a previously unknown singer, and much-deserved awards for Mary J. Blige, Bob Dylan, and Gnarls Barkley. There were the usual bizarre honors for Best Polka Album and liner notes but also plenty of recognition for some of your favorite musicians. Here's the list of winners:

Song of the Year: "Not Ready to Make Nice," Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks)

Here's my problem with the Grammy's: there are so many categories, and particularly categories that overlap (ie, if an album is country gospel, than isn't also both a country album and a gospel album?) that if you get more than one nomination, you are almost guaranteed to win something. And a lot of people win multiple awards for the same songs (like the Dixie Chicks, who won like 3 awards for one song, and two more for the album that same song was off of!).
On top of that, some of the categories seem so arbitrary! For example, you get best male/female breakdowns in R&B, Pop and Country, but none of the other genres? And only some genres get group/individual designations?? I mean, it almost feels like they decide who they want to give the awards to each year, and then make up the categories to fit them.
It just gets to the point where it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

I liked seeing Dan Zanes win for his kids' album. I loved the Del Fuegos and "Catch That Train" is great because it totally doesn't condescend to children. Happy to see Gnarls Barkley win, as well. The rest? Pretty much pfft.